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“ The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. ” (2 Peter 3:9)
HI FRIENDS
PAUL WANT TO SAY HI AND THANKS TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU FOR YOUR CONSTANT VISIT.PAUL IS CURRENTLY IN TENT MAKING BUSINESS, HE TRYING TO PUT FIFTY TO EIGHTY HOURS IN ”TENT MAKING BUSINESS.” PAUL & FRIENDS WISH YOU BLESSINGS IN YOUR TENT MAKING BUSINESS AS WELL.
JOSEPH AKOL MAJAK HAD COMPLETED HIS PROCESS AND HE WILL COME TO USA SOON HE SEND HIS GREETINGS TO ALL OF YOU THAT KNOW HIM. HE IS NOW WITH DUT MANYOK & AYIIK DENG MAHOL IN ETHIOPIA.
“ The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. ” (2 Peter 3:9)

Paul & Friends Second Missionary Journey is going to take place next summer God willing. Here is the hour and time to start joining the next team. for more information call 615 579 4794.
“ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, ” (Ephesians 5:25-26)
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THE BRICK

A young and successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street, going a
bit too fast in his new Jaguar He was watching for kids darting out from between
parked cars and slowed down

when he thought he saw something. As his car passed, no children appeared. Instead,
a brick smashed into the Jag’s side door! He slammed on the brakes and backed the
Jag back to the spot where the brick had been thrown. The angry driver

then jumped out of the car, grabbed the nearest kid and pushed him up against

a parked car shouting, “What was that all about and who are you? Just what the heck
are you doing? That’s a new car and that brick you threw is going to cost a lot of
money. Why did you do it?” The young boy was apologetic. “Please, mister…please,
I’m sorry but I didn’t know what else to do,” He pleaded. “I threw the brick because
no one else would stop…” With tears dripping down his face and off his chin, the
youth pointed to a spot just around a parked car. “It’s my brother, “he said “He
rolled off the curb and fell out of his wheelchair and I can’t lift him up.”

Now sobbing, the boy asked the stunned executive, “Would you please help me get him
back into his wheelchair? He’s hurt and he’s too heavy for me.”

Moved beyond words, the driver tried to swallow the rapidly swelling lump in his
throat. He hurriedly lifted the handicapped boy back into the wheelchair, then took
out a linen handkerchief and dabbed at the fresh scrapes and cuts. A quick look told
him everything was going to be okay. “Thank you and may God bless you,” the grateful
child told the stranger. Too shook up for words, the man simply watched the boy!
push his wheelchair-bound brother down the sidewalk toward their home.

It was a long, slow walk back to the Jaguar. The damage was very noticeable, but the
driver never bothered to repair the dented side door. He kept the dent there to
remind him of this message: “Don’t go through life so fast that someone has to throw
a brick at you to get your attention!” God whispers in our souls and speaks to our
hearts. Sometimes when we don’t have time to listen, He has to throw a brick at us.
It’s our choice to listen or not.

Thought for the Day:

If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.

If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it.

He sends you flowers every spring.

He sends you a sunrise every morning Face it, friend – He is crazy about you!

Send this to every “beautiful person” you wish to bless.

God didn’t promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow,sun without rain, but
He did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way.

Read this line very slowly and let it sink in…

If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it

Pass this message to seven people except you and me.

Sudan Christian Women Organization

Invitation to a meeting July 29st and 30nd 2006 in Denver, Colorado.

I the undersigned, President of the said organization Kuier Atem, hereby invite you to a general meeting of all Christian Women in USA to discuss issues related to ourselves, children, families, youth… here in USA and at home. The specific venue will be communicated shortly.

By the same token, we invite our other Sudanese non Christians as family issues have no religious divide. Please feel welcome to attend and contribute constructively for our well-being here and at home. Through such gathering, we shall forge dialogue, understanding and cooperation.

As family encompasses everybody, men have to feel free that they are also invited to the event. Without your participation, our meeting will not be complete and meaningful.

Our youth are also invited. Some of the issues on the table concern you. Your participation in defining them and recommending workable solutions cannot come without your active participation and leadership. Kindly participate in large numbers.

The family cannot be complete without the American Community where we live. As we share mutual concerns for our success here and there, we would like to see their active participation and contribution to a search for change, for improvement. We have done many things together and hope to continue effective coordination and cooperation.

While we are in the preliminary stages of planning the meeting, it’s success will depend on your participation in terms of ideas first, physical and eventually financial contribution. Your experience and suggestions will strengthen our collective action.

Pass the word to your neighbour, far and wide. Come one, come all.

Cultural show will be part of our program. We will dance, sing and enjoy. Do not miss.

Kuier Atem

Come Hear the Lost Boys of Sudan’s Response to Darfur
At George Mason University
July 7-8

FAIRFAX, Va. – April 18, 2006 – The Lost Boys of Sudan will come together this summer July 7-8th at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, 20 years after war tore apart their families and forced them from their homes and villages, to reunify and confront the catastrophic ordeal occurring in Southern Sudan and Darfur.

“We realize that we are the future of Sudan; we know that we were brought out for a purpose
greater than ourselves. Therefore we, the Lost Boys of Sudan, are looking for help from the
American communities to further this great cause.”

“We need your advice on leadership and how to succeed.”
- Angelo Maker,
Hampton, VA

Sponsored by The United Methodist General Board of Church and Society – Peace with Justice and Voices for: Sudan Crossroads and United Methodist Church, in Ashburn VA, “Lost Boys: FOUND! A Time of Reunion, Vision, Advocacy & Hope” with the Lost Boys of Sudan stems from the passion of 5 Lost Boys of Sudan who are currently living in Virginia eager to reunite with their fellow orphaned refugees to create processes of dealing with the genocide in Sudan, of developing means of infrastructure and securing educational opportunities and providing economic growth.

A peaceful assembly is also planned outside the Sudanese Embassy in Washington, D.C.

An estimated 20,000 children, mostly boys age 6 or 7 years old, were forced away from their homes and families when government troops systematically attacked villages in southern Sudan slaughtering many of the inhabitants, mostly civilians. Their villages were burned, their livestock was stolen and their families were massacred. Girls were raped, killed, taken as slaves or became servants.

“This tremendous disaster happened to me when my mama was cooking, and I was playing with
my lovely young brothers who died on the day I will never forget,” said Angelo Maker, one of 3700
Lost Boys currently living in the United States.

“On that afternoon, the enemy attacked our village and started randomly shooting, leaving dozens
of people dead, including my two brothers. My mama grabbed me and ran in the middle of the firing.
Five minutes later she was shot in both legs while holding my hand and trying to keep me safe. I
remained there helpless, just crying and screaming while she was bleeding badly, but I couldn’t help
her because I was only 7 years old.

I remained there for the rest of the night trying to wake her up until I fell asleep beside her body.

Walking thousands of miles in the Sub-Saharan heat through lion country and crocodile infested waters, the Lost Boys began a journey to an Ethiopia refugee camps to escape one of the bloodiest wars of the 20th century.

Eating mud to thwart off dehydration and hunger, they walked for months and months accruing over a thousand miles in bare feet that became so blistered they wrapped grass around them. Over half never made it to the camps; many were eaten by wild animals, some drowned, many were shot, others died from disease, insects, starvation or simply fatigue.

Miraculously, thousands survived the ordeal and in 2001, the United States government welcomed more than 3,700 “Lost Boys” into its borders and settled them into 38 cities throughout the country. Their goals were to begin new lives, and seek peace, freedom and education.

“Lost Boys: FOUND! A Time of Reunion, Vision, Advocacy & Hope” will reunite these boys who suffered such horrors and intense hardship so that they may speak on the tragedies in Southern Sudan and Darfur and strategize a way to return and rebuild. The conference will address issues such as:

• Genocide in Darfur, Sudan, and the need for multinational peacekeeping organizations in that region.
• The need for infrastructure development, educational opportunities and economic growth in Southern Sudan. This crisis is at a critical juncture as the peace process in Southern Sudan is foundational to ending the genocide in Darfur.
• Political action. A peaceful assembly is planned outside the Sudanese Embassy in Washington, DC.
The conference begins at 9 a.m. on July 7th and concludes at noon on July 8th.

Maker currently lives in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, and with other Lost Boys to inform others about the tragedy of Sudan and formulate ways of bringing aid and development back to their homeland.

“Lost Boys: FOUND! A Time of Reunion, Vision, Advocacy & Hope” will give Maker and other Lost Boys living in the United States an arena in which seek solutions to the question that has plagued them since their arrival in 2001,

“Has the world forgotten we are here?”

For more information go to:
www.lostboysgathering.org

Press Contact:

Jill King
KING1234@adelphia.net
703.401.0818

June 2

Worship: The Normal Employment of Moral Beings

The twenty-four elders fall down before Him who sits on the throne and
worship Him who lives forever and ever, and cast their crowns before
the throne, saying: “You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and
honor and power; for You created all things, and by Your will they
exist and were created.”
–Revelation 4:10-11

All of the examples that we have in the Bible illustrate that glad
and devoted and reverent worship is the normal employment of moral
beings. Every glimpse that is given us of heaven and of God’s created
beings is always a glimpse of worship and rejoicing and praise
because God is who He is.

The apostle John in Revelation 4:10-11 gives us a plain portrayal of
created beings around the throne of God….

I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the
Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and
turned off by worship is not ready for heaven. Whatever Happened
to Worship?, 13.

“Lord, please don’t let me ever become bored with worship! I pray
that today–and throughout this month–You might enhance my vision
of Your glory and draw me into heartfelt worship. Amen.”

DJ